The real idea of modern furnishings is economy and if you can substitute an old piece of junk and make it serve as well as something more costly, you win.— Alexander Calder

Great creativity requires hard facts, wild imagination and non logical jumps forward that are then proved to be right by working backwards to known principles. Only the rebellious can do it.— Lorraine Daston

You can observe a lot while watching.— Yogi Berra

It’s good to be open-minded, but if you're too open-minded, your brains fall out.— Old Yiddish saying

I don't think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It over comes everything, even nature. — John D. Rockefeller

Excuse me while I Boogaloo.— James Brown

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field— Neils Bohr

Frango ut patefaciam
I break in order to reveal
— Motto Paleontological Society

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget about old ideas— John Maynard Keynes

Luck is the residue of design— Branch Ricky

Man climbs mountains because it is there.
Man invents something because it is not there.
— Brett Stern

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire

The only person who makes no mistakes is the one who never does anything.
— Teddy Roosevelt

Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
— William Durant, founder of General Motors

New things are not trusted unless proven by experience.
— Nicoli Machiavelli

Experience is not what happens to you.
Experience is what you do with what happens to you.
— Aldous Huxley

IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE— Big Al Einstein

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
— Henry Thoreau

The only thing that keeps us alive is our brilliance, the only thing that protects our brilliance is our patents.
— Edward Land

Major advances in science occur not because the proponents of the established views are forced by the weight of evidence to change their minds, but because they retire and eventually die.
— Planck’s Dictum